The Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991 (c 6) is an
Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
. It gained Royal Assent on 7 March 1991.
The Act amended Section 8 of the
Census Act 1920
The Census Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 41) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Providing for a census for Great Britain (or any subsidiary part of it), on a date to be fixed by Order in Council, it remains the primary legislation ...
by replacing a subsection concerning penalties for the unlawful disclosure of personal information from the census.
The Act applies to
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...
. Separate legislation in the form of the Census (Confidentiality) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 exists for Northern Ireland.
See also
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Census in the United Kingdom
Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 (during the Second World War), Ireland in 1921/Northern Ireland in 1931,https://www.nisra.gov. ...
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Census (Amendment) Act 2000
The Census (Amendment) Act 2000 (2000 c. 24) and Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2000 (2000 asp 3) are acts of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom and Scotland, respectively. They introduced a question on the religion of respondents to the ...
References
*"Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991". Current Law Statutes Annotated 1991. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 1991
Volume 1 Chapter 6.
*"The Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991". Halsbury's Statutes of England. Third Edition. Butterworths. London. 1992
Binder 61: Continuation Binder 1991 Page 63.
*Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition Reissue. Volume 39(2). Para 634.
*Stan Openshaw. Census Users' Handbook. GeoInformation International. Pearson Professional Limited. 1995. p 400
Google*John Stilwell. The Routledge Handbook of Census Resources, Methods and Applications. Routledge. 2018
p 135
*"Treasury - Census"
The Parliamentary Monitor21
*Rex Sinnott, "The Census and Privacy in New Zealand" (April 2000
Archifacts25 at 31
*Catherine Heeney. "Ethical challenges in the big data environment". Alistair S Duff (ed). Research Handbook on Information Policy. Edward Elgar. 2021
p 401
*(1991) 54 Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, p 6
*"An introduction to the OPCS Longitudinal Study" (1993
25
Environment & Planning A 1387 at 1391
*Herman Wheeler. Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing. Routledge. London and New York. 2012
p 218
*The 1991 Census User's Guide. HMSO. 1993. p 115
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External links
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United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1991
Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning Great Britain
Censuses in the United Kingdom
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